Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

We see what we want to believe.

That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.